See wawe on Wiktionary
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"expansion": "wawe",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Tunjung",
"lang_code": "tjg",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Tunjung entries with incorrect language header",
"Tunjung lemmas",
"Tunjung nouns",
"Tunjung terms in nonstandard scripts"
],
"glosses": [
"woman"
],
"links": [
[
"woman",
"woman"
]
]
}
],
"word": "wawe"
}
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